overhead of reflection info

[Andrew Haley]

Boehm, Hans writes:
 > Are we talking about the same thing here?

Almost certainly not.  :-)

 > I think Tom and I were talking about instances of class Class, and
 > things hanging from it.  It would make sense to me that that's
 > scanned conservatively (as part of the root set) for compiled
 > classes.

Right.

 > For anything that's statically allocated, the collector won't normally see
 > the bitmap, even if it's there.

Got that.

Thanks,
Andrew.